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The Travelers Return to Dickey-Stephens Parkon Thursday, July 7

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"College draftees get bigger signing bonuses, typically. HS kids get to free agency quicker and hence stand to make much more money. There's actually a good series of articles about this on fangraphs.com. It actually uses Cole and Tyler Chatwood as examples. You should consider investigating the details before arbitrarily taking a stance. Maybe see if Chatwood would trade his spot in the Angels rotation and 3 months of MLB service time for the glory years of overuse at college." -- Mars

Reagins: Mike Trout WILL start season with Arkansas Travelers

The debate is over before he has even reported to spring training: Mike Trout, the most electrifying player in Minor League Baseball and rated by most as the No. 1 overall prospect destined for superstardom in the Majors, will start the season with the Arkansas Travelers.

That's according to Tony Reagins, the Los Angeles Angels general manager who used to grace us with his appearance (and put up with Bill Valentine's roast-style introduction) at the Travs hot stove meeting back when he was the Angels' farm director.

But Angels manager Mike Scioscia, who will have new Travs manager Bill Mosiello sending players to steal every base just as Bobby Magallanes was forced to, says Trout will be on the Angels depth chart late in the year and would not be surprised if he gets called up.

Will Trout be the next Brandon Wood? Odds are he is going to be on a much faster track to Los Angeles. Buy your baseball cards now, autograph hounds.